Semua Bab The Dragonlord’s Wife Behind the Closed Gate: Bab 1 - Bab 8

Lucian froze, disbelief written across his face.“What did you say?”The next second, he grabbed my shoulders. His eyes widened, and his voice rose without him noticing.“Who? Who did you marry?”I was about to say Kael’s name, but Lucian suddenly let go and laughed.“You are lying to upset me, aren’t you?”“Elara, you were six months pregnant back then. Every time I left you for Liora, you cried into my clothes. Everyone knew you would give birth to my child. Everyone knew you could not live without me.”“What decent man would marry you?”“I know you resent my choice back then. But now that you have returned to Drakefire, returned to my side, you should be smart enough to let go of your pride. Stop clinging to that little matter from the past.”A little matter?Everything I had suffered was only a small old grievance to him.He even believed that since I had survived, I should forget everything and return to him, useful and obedient as before.He did not know that the little matter he

The fire dragon landed hard enough to shake the banquet hall.The force of its wings threw Lucian off my back and sent him crashing across the floor. Before anyone could recover, Kael had already dismounted.His gaze found me among the fallen guards, and the cold command in his face broke into alarm.“Elara.”He crossed the hall, helped me up, and checked the blood and dust on my clothes.“What happened? Are you hurt?”“I am fine.”Auren broke free from the guard and rushed into his arms.“Father! They bullied Mother!”Kael held him close, then looked at the guards who had forced us down. Dragon power swept through the hall. The guards dropped to their knees, stiff and unable to move.The guests who had mocked me earlier turned pale.“That is dragon power.”“No wonder he can ride the fire dragon.”“Only Kael Drakon can command dragons.”“Then Elara may truly be Lady Drakon.”Several people lowered their heads at once.“Lady Elara, forgive us. We were rude.”Liora understood the danger

Lucian sat where the dragon fire had driven him down, his face pale beneath the soot on his coat.“No,” he said, forcing the word out. “No, this is impossible.”His gaze moved between Kael and me, searching for some flaw in the truth before him.“Elara, tell me he is not Kael Drakon.”“He is,” I said. “And he is my husband.”The hall, already silent, seemed to tighten around those words.Lucian shook his head slowly. “So you really married someone else?”“Yes. Seven years ago, after you shut the gates and left me outside Drakefire’s walls, Kael saved me. I married him after that. I became Lady Drakon.”His face changed at the title. Not grief. Not regret. Possession, wounded at last because it had been denied.He came toward me in two hard steps and gripped my shoulders.“How could he marry you? You were carrying my child.”Kael’s eyes sharpened. Before he could move, I pushed Lucian’s hands away.“Kael married me because he loved me.”The simplicity of the answer seemed to anger Lucia

After the banquet, Kael did not execute Lucian and Liora in the hall.He handed them to the Vale family and the Dragon Court instead, with only one order: Drakefire Keep would give my wife a public answer.The investigation moved faster than anyone expected.The Vale elders found the poison records hidden in Lucian’s private accounts. His brother had not died of illness. Small doses had been given to him for months, slow enough to look like a wasting sickness and quiet enough to leave Lucian standing beside the deathbed, playing the loyal younger brother.The prisoner’s testimony also matched the old reports from the night Drakefire fell. Liora had been captured first. She had bought her life by giving the enemy my hiding place.By the time the truth was announced, no one in Drakefire could pretend ignorance anymore.Lucian was stripped of his title. Liora lost every protection the Vale name had given her. Rowan, whose claim had been built on their lies, was cast out with them. The Val